Landstar System Newswire

Landstar System Inc. generally does a good job of keeping Wall Street up-to-date with its financial projections. Not only does the Jacksonville-based trucking company provide an earnings forecast for every quarter, it also holds a mid-quarter conference call to update investors on its progress.
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Two of Jacksonville's largest companies, Crowley Maritime Corp.'s logistics branch and Landstar System , have been named Top 100 3PL providers by Inbound Logistics magazine. Both were selected from hundreds of candidates, and made the list among 3PL staples such as XPO, J.B. Hunt and Ryder.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to Landstar System Inc.'s Second Quarter 2015 Earnings Release Conference Call. All lines will be in a listen-only mode until the formal and question-and-answer session.
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... in 2006, has been on for six years. The only other Jacksonville-based company on the Fortune 1000 list is Landstar System Inc., which moved from 786th to 719th with $3.2 billion in revenue. Southeastern Grocers, the parent company of the Winn-Dixie ...
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... that soon, JZ Expedited Logistics could be just as big a name as Crowley Maritime Corp., CSX Corp. or Landstar System Inc. "Our name is getting out there," he said, after stepping outside where the Florida weather was cooler than inside the ...
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... make a purchase, is that they expect to make money. Today we look at two noteworthy recent insider buys. At Landstar System (NASDAQ: LSTR ), a filing with the SEC revealed that on Monday, Director Anthony J. Orlando bought 4,000 shares of LSTR, at a ...
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Landstar System Director Anthony J. Orlando bought 4,000 shares of the company's stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 8th. The shares were purchased at an average price of $66.76 per share, for a total transaction of $267,040.00.
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Landstar System revenue rose 8 percent in the first eight weeks of the second quarter, as the company revved capacity up to 2008 levels to handle strong freight demand and capitalize on higher rates.
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Landstar System, Inc. issued an update on its third quarter earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.87-0.82 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.89, Market Beat.com reports.
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LSTR has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports. Analysts at Wolfe Research upgraded shares of Landstar System from an "underperform" rating to a "peer perform" rating in a research note on Friday, May 29th.
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... Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, and has said it intends to open venues in several other cities this year. Landstar System Inc. announced Friday that long-time board member Diana Murphy was appointed non-executive chairman of the board. Murphy, 58, is a ...
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Landstar System said May 22 that Diana Murphy has been named nonexecutive chairman of the board, effective May 19, and that it raised to 3 million the amount of its stock shares it intends to purchase. Murphy, who joined the board in 1998 and has served as its lead director since May 2012, "has been a valuable member of Landstar's board for over 17 years," CEO Jim Gattoni said in a statement.
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There's been a lot of talk around the issue of workforce development in Jacksonville these days, including plans for a STEM Hub in Northeast Florida that will officially be announced next week. Jacksonville is also the latest city to start a chapter of Year Up , a national nonprofit program that partners with local business communities to meet their needs for skilled labor.
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Patriot Transportation Holdings was spun-off of FRP Holdings on January 30, 2015. Serving as a bulk tank carrier since 1962, Patriot is focused on the southeastern United States, transporting petroleum and other liquid and dry bulk commodities.
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... APR has made progress on exiting Libya and the market fundamentals, long term, should be positive,' he said. Landstar System Inc. last week reported record-high first-quarter earnings, despite the costs of a lawsuit related to a fatal accident ...
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Analysts have mixed views on the remainder of Landstar System Inc.'s year , after the company posted a lackluster first quarter due to an accident that led to a one-time $4.5 million expense for the Jacksonville company. Experts agree that had the settlement not hit the company so hard - costing Landstar 6 cents per share - the logistics firm would have hit its guidance range of 71 cents to 76 cents, rather than landing at 67 cents for the first quarter.
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Landstar System Inc. reported record first quarter diluted earnings per share of 67 cents on record first quarter revenue of $762 million. The figures compare to diluted earnings per share of 61 cents a year earlier and revenue of $688.2 million for the Florida-based asset-light transportation and logistics provider.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to Landstar System Inc.'s First Quarter 2015 Earnings Release Conference Call. All lines will be in a listen-only mode until the formal and question-and-answer session.
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